News From Bolt's Place

Bolt says

He’s got an accent nearly as bad as mine. His painting of Holland has mountains. And Holland never was good at composing anything, anyway, even folk songs. But it’s kind of my heritage.

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No deal in the bag
So much for a new era of federal-state cooperation on plastic bags
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Just five years to doom, says Brown
Put the scare in your diary for prediction-checking in 2013. Bob Brown on ABC Radio National today
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Ideas off the wall
Seems the “fresh” ideas Kevin Rudd wants from his summit are coming from insiders who’ve been around so long that many are museum pieces in the 20/20 summit
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A very successful failure
Year 11 teachers at Woodville High School are instructed to make their subjects easier, and let students do only one of seven possible assessement tasks
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77 per cent of writers’ festival patrons are racist
The Sydney Writers’ Festival will abuse 77 per cent of its audience next month
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Our past is a leper
IT is a sign of our sickness that claims we performed medical experiments on “stolen” Aboriginal children are now taken seriously. How seriously?
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Movie mush by committee
AS if our movies weren’t bad enough, here’s Cate Blanchett with a plan from a government committee to make them worse.
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Baking with blue passion
MAY I have a quiet f...ing word with the Liberals who are shocked by Gordon Ramsay? Do you really want to be at war with a chef who has the highest-rating show on Melbourne television?
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UN’s newest bigots for human rights
read the column. It explains itself well.
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Details, details
Grand ideas are fine, but implementation is everything. I suspect the proposals for one-stop drop-offs for four-year-olds, carbon trading, Fuel Watch, a computer for every older student and more will suffer a fate similar to this